21-05-2008, 01:58 PM
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N-Gage games locked to single phone
The N-Gage platform aims to usher in a new age of high quality connected phone gaming. However if you upgrade to a new phone, you cannot transfer any of your N-Gage games from the old phone. In this feature article All About N-Gage looks at the situation, possible consequences and potential solutions.
Read on in the full article.
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21-05-2008, 02:07 PM
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Want to move your N-Gage games to a new phone? Nokia says you can't.
This week we had something rather nasty confirmed to us by Nokia: when you upgrade to a new phone, the only way to keep your N-Gage games is to buy them all over again. Read our special feature article on all the implications of this policy, why it's an awful idea, and how Nokia ought to change their policy to allow people to transfer their game libraries.
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21-05-2008, 02:38 PM
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Wow, this is very unfortunate news :(
I seriously belived the games were linked to the N-Gage account and not the phone. Cause that would make so much more sense. Now the N-Gage suddenly got a lot less attractive to me.
Unless there's a really mindblowingly awesome single player RPG released soon (like Rifts for original N-Gage), I don't really care anymore if my next phone is a non-N-Gage phone. There are good java games out there (such as Sola Rola & Puzzle Quest) and I might just stick to those.
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21-05-2008, 02:47 PM
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This is really confusing.
Nokia must realise more than anyone that people change phones often, sometimes even during contracts.
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21-05-2008, 02:48 PM
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I seriously belived the games were linked to the N-Gage account and not the phone. Cause that would make so much more sense. Now the N-Gage suddenly got a lot less attractive to me.
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That's exactly how I feel. The platform has so much potential, and this policy just ruins it.
It seems that Nokia did originally want to link it just to an account, because the early N-Gage demo videos from 2006 included a "game locker" feature for PCs that let you load a phone with games just like loading an iPod with music.
Hopefully Nokia will go back to their original plans when they realise how stupid the current situation is.
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Nokia must realise more than anyone that people change phones often, sometimes even during contracts.
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Yup, and you'd think Nokia would want to encourage people to change phones often, because they make a profit on the hardware sales.
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21-05-2008, 03:01 PM
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Ive never been much into games on mobiles, but I was always keen to see some of the Ngage stuff. Sooner or later a game was going to come up that suited me, and they are reasonably cheap.
If I cant take it with me when I upgrade, (or my phone dies) which is at least once every 18 months, then Im not interested in Ngage at all.
I cant put into words what a bad move I think this is.
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21-05-2008, 03:03 PM
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I really really REALLY hope Nokia change their policy about this...
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21-05-2008, 03:13 PM
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I really really REALLY hope Nokia change their policy about this...
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So do I. The N-Gage accounts are already there. Don't see why they wouldn't be able to take advantage of that instead.
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21-05-2008, 03:24 PM
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This insane policy ruins N-Gage for me
I have bought a couple of Games, Tetris and Brain Challenge and was going to buy the Creatures of the Deep and Mile High Pinball games.
But if you can't swop devices what is the point, I tend to change my devices a couple of times a year.
Sorry Nokia, unless you change this policy, you won't be getting anymore of my cash.
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21-05-2008, 03:26 PM
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If anyone wants to make their feelings known directly to Nokia, they might want to post on the official N-Gage forums:
http://forums.arena.n-gage.com/
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21-05-2008, 03:40 PM
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this rule changes
or i wont buy. piracy ftw!
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21-05-2008, 03:52 PM
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Just send in Chris Anderson to talk to the ngage team
and by the end of the month they will be giving it away games for free. Or maybe even paying games companies to give them away for free.
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21-05-2008, 03:57 PM
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and by the end of the month they will be giving it away games for free. Or maybe even paying games companies to give them away for free.
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The games aren't the problem, it's the DRM system that people are complaining about.
People do want the games, but Nokia won't let them keep them after changing phones. If people didn't want the games, there wouldn't be such a fuss about this restriction.
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21-05-2008, 03:59 PM
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Have done now. Probably be better if someone made a poll and then gave a link.
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